Here a quote from a current thread into wikitech-l.
Using #lst to implement variables into wikitext is really "a terrible hack"
in your opinion too...? If it is, I feel myself really uncomfortable and
depressed... :-(
I'd like a clear statement about, and - if needed - clearly stated limits in
the use of #lst (that IMHO is implicitely something that "implements named
variables" into wikitext, simply calling those variables "named sections")
Alex
2011/1/4 Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com>
> What a "creative" use of #lst allows, if it is really an efficient, light
> routine, is to build named variables and arrays of named variables into
> one
> page; I can't imagine what a good programmer could do with such a powerful
> tool. I'm, as you can imagine, far from a good programmer, nevertheless I
> built easily routines for unbeliavable results. Perhaps, coming back to
> the
> topic..... a good programmer would disrupt wikipedia using #lst? :-)
Using #lst to implement variables in wikitext sounds like a terribl
hack, similar to how using {{padleft:}} to implement string functions
in wikitext is a terrible hack.
Thanks Roan, your statement sound very alarming for me; I'll open a specific
thread about into wikisource-l quoting this talk. I'm doing any efford to
avoid server/history overload, since I know that I am using a free service
(I just fixed {{loop}} template to optimize it into it.source, at my
best...) and if you are right, I've to change deeply my approach to #lst.